<season>

Season

Season of publication (for example, Spring, Third Quarter).

Remarks

Related Essay: For a discussion on the use of <season>, see Dates in Citations.
Usage: This element is used in both article metadata and inside a bibliographic reference (<element-citation> or <mixed-citation>).

Related Elements

In Citations: Within citations (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>), this element is used to name the date of publication. The elements <year>, <date>, <day>, <month>, and <season> may all be used to describe the date a cited resource was published. Other dates inside a citation, such as a copyright date, the date on which the author accessed the resource, or a withdrawal date, should be tagged using <date-in-citation> with the @content-type attribute used to name the type of date (copyright, access-date, time-stamp, etc.).

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  season       (#PCDATA)                                    >

Description

Text, numbers, or special characters

This element may be contained in:

<access-date>, <conf-date>, <date>, <date-in-citation>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <pub-date>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-date>, <time-stamp>

Example 1

In article metadata: 
    ...
<article-meta>...
<title-group>
<article-title>Raptor Science</article-title>
<subtitle>Capturing Cosmological &ldquo;Winks&rdquo;</subtitle>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib>
<name><surname>Fishbone</surname>
<given-names>Brian</given-names></name>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2003">
<season>Spring</season>
<year iso-8601-date="2003">2003</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2003">
<season>Spring</season>
<year iso-8601-date="2003">2003</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>...</volume>
...</article-meta>
...

Example 2

In an element-style bibliographic citation (punctuation and spacing removed): 
    ...
<ref>
<element-citation>
<person-group person-group-type="author">
<name><surname>Shneiderman</surname>
<given-names>B.</given-names></name>
</person-group>
<article-title>Designing information-abundant web
sites: issues and recommendations</article-title>
<source>Web Developers' Journal</source>
<volume>47</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<issue-title>World Wide Web Usability</issue-title>
<fpage>100</fpage>
<lpage>120</lpage>
<page-range>100-101, 105, 107-120</page-range>
<season>Summer</season>
<year iso-8601-date="1997">1997</year>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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